Otherham - Grimm & Co

Grimm & Co

What: Otherham

When: Thursday evenings 4:30pm - 6:00pm. From Thursday 12th September - Thursday 17th October 2024

Where: Grimm & Co. Emporium of Stories. Ship Hill, Rotherham. S60 2HG

Who: 12-16 year-olds

Grimm & Co are very excited to be collaborating with imitating the dog, a theatre company who are creating a trail of projection installations across Rotherham Town Centre for the Winter Festival in January 2025. And they need your help to make it happen!

Imagine a place… a town where things aren’t quite as they seem, where young people’s imaginations have taken over, giving everything a sideways tilt. It’s a magical place where anything seems possible, where a stone wall might become a portal to new worlds, where the weather could be ordered from a menu with your coffee, where kindness is delivered by a flutter of butterflies. It’s this place and, at the same time, it’s an ‘other’ place. Welcome to Otherham.

This 6-week writing programme is for young people aged 12-16 years where we will imagine an alternative, otherworldly Rotherham. The stories created will be used as inspiration by imitating the dog in their designs for the installations that will be projected on Rotherham buildings during the Winter Festival.